In a contentious interview, former Clinton White House operative and current ABC host George Stephanopoulos accused U.S. Representative Byron Donalds (R-FL) of repeatedly slurring Vice President Kamala Harris. But the “slur” is nonspecific, and not really a slur at all.
Watch Stephanopoulos work arduously towards his next defamation lawsuit (click “expand”):
“George, now that you’re done yelling at me, let me answer” – @ByronDonalds to ABC’s @GStephanopoulos in contentious “interview” in which Stephanopoulos repeatedly accused Donalds of repeating a “slur” Stephanopoulos kept bring up. #ThisWeek pic.twitter.com/TocOy8thMW
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8/4/24
9:08 AM
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: And you just repeated the slur again. If it doesn't matter, why do you all keep questioning her identity? She's always identified as a black woman. She is biracial. She has a Jamaican father and Indian mother. She's always identified as both. Why are you questioning that?
BYRON DONALDS: Well, George, first of all, this is something that's actually a conversation throughout social media right now. There are a lot of people who are trying to figure this out, but again, that's a side issue, not the main issue. The main issue is the terrible, terrible job…
STEPHANOPOULOS: Sir, one second. You just did it- you just did it again.
DONALDS: …of Kamala Harris as Vice President of the United States.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why- why do you cont- why do you insist on questioning her racial identity?
(CROSSTALK)
DONALDS: George…do you want to talk or do you want me to talk?
STEPHANOPOULOS: I want you to answer my question.
(CROSSTALK)
DONALDS: George. George, now that you're done yelling at me, let me answer. He talked about it on the stage yesterday in Atlanta for, what? Two minutes? He spent more than 35, 40 minutes going after her record, talking about how radical of a senator that she was. She was the most liberal senator in the United States- in the United States Senate. That is a fact. He talked about the job that she did as Vice President of the United States, a job I will add, which has been a failure for the American people. I know you guys like to glom onto this that he talked about in jest or in a serious manner for about a minute or so, but what you do not cover is the litany of failures of Kamala Harris. That's what you're not covering, George.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So questioning somebody's racial identity for a couple of minutes is okay?
DONALDS: George, I'm going to tell you again. He brought it up. AP is the one that wrote the headline when she first came into the United States Senate. Didn't talk about her being black. Talked about her being the first Indian-American senator. AP brought that up. I mean, George, we could have this conversation for the entire segment. But none of this matters to the American people. What matters to the American people is are we going to have the same policies of the Biden-Harris administration that has been destructive of the American people, or are we going to have the policies of the Trump administration which put America first, had low inflation, prosperous Americans, no matter your race, no matter your color, no matter your creed, and a foreign policy that kept America safe? Those are the facts that truly matter. Because this issue’s going to come and go. The lives of the American people is what's going to remain and that's what matters more than anything else.
STEPHANOPOULOS If it doesn't matter, I don't understand why you keep on repeating it, why the president keeps on repeating it, why those introducing the president yesterday keep on repeating it.
DONALDS: George, actually, I'm not the one who keeps repeating it. George, you're the one that’s bringing it up now. That’s you. And I understand why you want to bring it up.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Sir, you've done it- you’ve three times. Every single answer you gave me -- now let me finish, sir. Every single answer you gave me repeated the slur.
DONALDS: George, you’ve asked me. You’ve asked me, George. That's why I'm pushing back on you now. George, you’ve asked me the question three times, I responded, but I’m talking about what truly matters in this election.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And every single time you repeat the slur. That's exactly my point. You simply can't say that it's wrong.
DONALDS: George. So then what you're saying, so then what- and I want to get off this topic because it's not the only thing going on, but George, now you're saying that AP is the one that slurred Kamala Harris? Because those are the facts. You can go to the internet and look at the clips, George, if you want to or we can talk about this now. I prefer to talk about the future of our country because the American people are struggling. The American people do need serious policy decisions to be made, and they need serious leadership on the world stage. Kamala Harris has not proven she can do that. Donald J. Trump has proven that he can do that.
STEPHANOPOULOS: AP did not say that Kamala Harris is not black. She is biracial. She is Indian. She is black. You continue to repeat the fact- you continue to repeat the slur. I don't understand why you and the president do it, but it’s clear you’re not going to say that it’s wrong. You’ve now established that for our audience.
The “slur” narrative serves the purpose of shielding Harris from any questions about her identity by deeming them to be inherently racist. But, in fact, Donalds uttered no slue of Harris, or did anything else other than highlight the inconsistencies in how the media reported on Harris’s race and ethnicity.
Reasonable people may determine that time is better spent explaining to voters how Harris is a dangerous authoritarian who weaponized California’s state government against a political opponent at the behest of a preferred client organization (Planned Parenthood). But the media want no part of that discourse, which is how we get endless cycles of “Kamala is brat” and how questioning any part of her life story is off limits.
When you come to think about it, it’s really a basement-plus strategy. Not only does Harris not have to answer questions from the media, but questioning anything related to her is also off-limits.
This is how we get Stephanopoulos yelling at Donalds for minutes on end, whether about Harris’s identity or about Trump potentially pardoning J6 defendants. Despite a defamation lawsuit against him being allowed to proceed, Stephanopoulos shows no signs of moderating his political hackery in service of the Regime.
Here again, we see a Regime Media effort to shape the election via truth-optional narrative. And, as in most cases, the most Biden/Harris sycophantic network is at the heart of it.
